Plenty of determining factors go into the making of a good public servant: personal ambition, personality disposition, career path, circle of friends, etc.
One that’s overrated, in my opinion: educational pedigree.
I got to thinking about this after reading Louis Freedberg’s latest dispatch in California Watch in which he notes that, of the leading candidates for California’s high-profiled elected offices, not a single one graduated from a California public high school — and only Jerry Brown has a lengthy California-based school resume.
To which I have to ask: so what?
